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Households' risk perceptions, overplacement, and financial literacy

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Fessler, Pirmin; Silgoner, Maria … - 2024

Household financial resilience is related to the availability of financial resources but also to the ability to anticipate and assess future situations and prepare for them accordingly. Overplacement describes the tendency of individuals to rate themselves better than others, i.e. they believe...

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Corruption and political accountability in good and bad economic times

Barinas-Forero, Andrés; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2025

cycle. Punishment decisions are driven by observed public good allocations; low allocations prompt significantly higher … punishment rates than high allocations, even resulting in the punishment of honest politicians during bad economic times …. Additionally, we assess the role of corruption expectations in shaping responses: citizens with prior beliefs that politicians are …

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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Self-perceptions about academic achievement : evidence from Mexico City

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2020

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...

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How does it feel to be part of the minority? : impacts of perspective taking on prosocial behavior

Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021

Can taking the perspective of an out-group reduce prejudice and promote prosociality? Building on insights from social psychology, we study the case of Colombian natives and Venezuelan immigrants. We conducted an online experiment in which we randomly assigned natives to either play an online...

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National pride and tax compliance : a laboratory experiment using a physiological marker

Macintyre, Alison; Chan, Ho Fai; Schaffner, Markus; … - 2021

This paper reports on a laboratory experiment designed specifically to test the influence of national pride on tax honesty while using a physiological marker to observe emotional responses to patriotic priming. Participants were exposed to one of three framing videos before earning income in a...

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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games

Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009

Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...

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Decreasing incomes increase selfishness

Gagnon, Nickolas; Saulle, Riccardo D.; Zaunbrecher, … - 2021

We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First, we investigate the effect of a negative income...

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Nudging taxpayer registration? : field experimental evidence on backfiring incentives

Eguino, Huáscar; Roman, Soraya; Schächtele, Simeon - 2020

Governments in Latin America raise little revenue from property taxation, despite arguments for its efficiency and equity. Adequate registry information would support consistent collection, but registries are costly to establish and maintain. Compared to tax collection, field experimental...

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Trustful voters, trustworthy politicians : a survey experiment on the influence of social media in politics

Aruguete, Natalia; Calvo, Ernesto; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2021

Recent increases in political polarization in social media raise questions about the relationship between negative online messages and the decline in political trust around the world. To evaluate this claim causally, we implement a variant of the well-known trust game in a survey experiment with...

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